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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

I mean it could be technically true.

Thunderbird's search timeline results for "this is literally the best offer we've ever given anyone". Results are shown for every year starting from 2021, multiple times per year.

Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I'm amazed and so proud, my wife disassembled the lens and removed the bits of broken cables from inside. Also the AF is now super fast again, like new! We didn't have a replacement cable so she just ripped it out which means that VR doesn't work but everything else does.

Person reassembling the lens on a white paper. Screwdriver in hand, tweezers and more lens pieces on the desk.

The lens partially disassembled, with a piece of torn flex cable next to it on the table.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

[That wizard series by that transphobic author] Fucking hell, ads even in my phone's update notes.

Pixel update notes for September: Instantly customize your Pixel with Harry Potter audiobook podcasts to celebrate the release of Harry Potter: The Full-Cast Audio Editions on Audible.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Welp. Is our lense ruined? Never mind the dust, there seems to be some cable loose inside the lense. It moves around and casts a shadow on the image. Nikkor 18-200mm VR DX. #Nikon #Photography

Closeup from front of lense. There is what seems to be a flat wide cable in the path of the light.

More detail, the cable has shifted position.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I sometimes think that I'm writing my blog into the void. I have no idea if anyone's reading. So it made my day to get this reply on Lobste.rs. ^_^ If you make something and like writing even a bit, then do write about it and share it! Even if it's a short […] [Original post on masto.ahlcode.fi]

Girlonthemoon replies:

Just passing by to say that I've been using your retroify script for like a year now since I discovered it on your blog. It's so fun!!

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I have stumbled upon ye olde Internet.

Picture of Nikon camera, along with text:

Shift and tilt motion is feasible in all directions, because at the mount of the lens there is a mechanism to gyrate it around its own axis. On the image at right you may see an animation with all possible movement. Be patient, it is a 240Kb image; it may take some time to load.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Saw these two fellers out for a stroll today. #Snails

A brown shelled snail on a leaf facing the camera.

A lighter coloured snail partly behind a blurred leaf, viewed from above.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

This tiny 213x320 photo is 81 KiB! I *must* have messed up something. Is it actually bigger but just claims to be 213x320 in the metadata? I created it using `magick ... -resize 320x320 png:- | avifenc -l -s 0 --input-format png --stdin`

Tiny pixellated photo of a parking garage in only 8 colours.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

The summer has ended Quietly surrendered #RetroPhotography

A pixellated, dithered photo of a leaf. It's green in the centre but the edges are already yellow. The veins of the leaf are prominent.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Jäätelöherkku-kioski Kauniaisissa näyttää miten syvältä default-jäätelökioskit on: tässä on "yhden" pallon annos johon sai kaksi makua ja itse tehdyn vohvelin hintaan 4,5 €. Toki jonoakin oli sitten siihen malliin, meni jonoon ja syömiseen ~tunti. 😅 #Kauniainen #jäätelö

Iso vohveli jossa kolme jäätelöpalloa, yksi on eri värinen. Taustalla jäätelökioski ja jono.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Found you! And your less known, toxic cousin from *that* instance. #Heureka #Mastodon

A life size museum display of a Mastodon.

A life size museum display of a Toxodon. It looks like a super sized evil hamster.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Täällähän on ollu kunnon leivontabileet eilen! Tosin nää tuntu aika painavilta... ilmainen näyte?

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Aha ok. @fedora forum signup form username field.

Text input that reads "nicd-". Under it is a validation error message:

Only these characters are allowed: "a-z", "0-9", "-".

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Oho, kävin katsomassa Rexin polkupyörävahausjuttuja ja siellä olikin tuttuja uMatrixissa. #Dude

uMatrix-näkymässä listattuna rex.fi-sivustolla kolmannen osapuolen domainina analytics.dude.fi.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

Is there a place where raspberries *won't* grow? #Tampere

Rusty sheet piles with a big rusty bold protruding from them. Next to the bolt, a raspberry bush grows from between the sheet piles.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

When I was a wee lad I made friends with a girl who had a DSLR. I got to try it and later that year bought my own Nikon D50 with my summer job cash. I took about 27k shots but over the years my interest faded. The D50 was outdated (excuse) and while I looked […] [Original post on masto.ahlcode.fi]

A Nikon D5300 on a table, with a Nikkor 18-200 AF-S attached.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Not exactly CarryShitOlympics, but I had fun positioning e.g. my fake-crocs on the back of my bike while on our trip this summer. Having the mug hanging off the side of the pannier meant it was hitting the plastic parts and sounded like a cow bell every time I hit uneven terrain. #BikeTooter

A bicycle loaded with various stuff like front panniers (which a steel mug is hanging from), a tent and a travel mattress. There's swim trunks on top of the mattress, drying in the sun. Two rubber crocs-style shoes are hanging from the rear rack on either side of the back tire.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Mua aina huvittaa että Kempowerin latureissa (mm. ABC) vilahtaa hetkellisesti Spock kun lataus käynnistyy. Syytä en tiedä. #StarTrek #Kempower

Laturin näyttö jossa lukee "Tunnistauduttu" ja sen alla on henkilöä esittävä ikoni. Henkilölle piirretty tukka saa sen näyttämään ihan Spockilta.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

Tämän kesän ykkösohitus (tähän asti). Muuten oli kiva reissu Saimaalla, mutta tällä pätkällä oli inhottavan paljon liikennettä. #pyöräily

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

It's yum yum season in the garden.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

It's warm out here. Not my best work but it did the job. Was able to use it for maybe 20 minutes for fanning in cooler air in between people smoking on their balconies. :| #CarryShitOlympics

A big metal fan has been haphazardly tied to the rear rack of a bicycle.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2026

Finally after a couple of summers where I haven't had the time or motivation, today I broke 100 km cycled in one day on a regular bike, final total was 112.60 km. The route was Kehä III from start to finish, plus getting there and back from home. Not the […] [Original post on masto.ahlcode.fi]

Vantaankoski rapids. An old man-altered rapid with a white stone building next to it. The water is quite brown.

6 lanes of highway surrounded by forests and some green fields. Part of Kehä III.

Bicycle computer showing trip distance 100.00 km.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Heh, Ali Khamenei's state funeral sponsored by Finnish supermarket chain Kesko. 😅 yle.fi/a/74-20235530 (in Finnish) www.kesko.fi/en #Kesko #AliKhamenei #Iran

A truck in the middle of a large crowd. The truck has orange sides with Kesko's K logos.

Zoomed out screenshot of the previous video. A coffin has been pulled out from the Kesko truck and is carried by the crowd. Kesko's logos can clearly be seen on the side of the truck.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2026

Phew, that's done. The US campaign, that is. I've had this game for decades(?) now, and this is the first time I played through it. #OperationFlashpoint #ArmaColdWarAssault

End screen of the game with a group portrait of some characters from it. A group of US soldiers and one smartly dressed Russian woman pose for the camera next to a village.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

Is the outer (bigger) sprocket here worn down? Since it's a different shape from the inner one. These are the front sprockets, unfortunately I don't know which ones but the bigger one says Shimano 46 on it. #BikeTooter

Closeup of bicycle front sprockets. The bike is upside down.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Something I've been thinking about. I should disconnect idle USB chargers because of the fire hazard, right? Then how come these are a thing?

A Schneider outlet that has built-in USB-A and USB-C sockets.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Spoilers for GC9610R Lippuvisa / Flag Quiz. A geocache that my wife and I made that I'm particularly proud of. Before you get the coordinates, there's an online flag quiz that you have to pass (that I also programmed myself, in Elixir). From that, you get […] [Original post on masto.ahlcode.fi]

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

On a lighter note, here's some hops climbing a light pole in our yard. There's still a law from 1734 in effect in Finland whereby each house must grow hops, so here's ours! Every year it grows on the same light pole, and every year we tear it down as it […] [Original post on masto.ahlcode.fi]

Hops twisting along a light pole, filmed from below on a sunny day.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Biking today. Tampere folks can probably spot where. #RetroPhotography

A fatbike under a bridge. The picture only has 10 colours, it's mostly drab but the bike's red colour pops up along with some red graffiti on a bridge pylon.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Alueella on muutenkin outoja asioita. Alt-tekstit tulossa.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 15/06/2026

Aarteita Tammerkoskessa. Alt-tekstit tulossa. #tampere #tammerkoski

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Ylen artikkelissa vähän ennakkoasenteelliset valinnat gallupissa: - Kyllä. - Kyllä, mutta en ole huomannut. - Kyllä, mutta ei kiinnosta. Tälleen fediversumissa tuosta tuntuu puuttuvan ainakin yksi vaihtoehto.

Onko tekoälyllä tuotettu sisältö vallannut sinun somesi?

- Kyllä todellakin! Siltä ei voi välttyä.
- En oikeastaan erota tekoälyllä tehtyjä kuvia tai videoita oikeista.
- Asia ei kiinnosta minua.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Remember to charge your audio jacks for maximum performance.

An unplugged charger with a Europlug. The output wire of the charger ends in a 3.5 mm TRRS plug.

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Trying to use my laptop on a train. macOS does its darnedest to eat through my battery. Wondering about why system settings is using 72% CPU? I forgot the sound settings pane open, and apparently that's carte blanche to spin the CPU as much as you want. #macOS

MenuMeters showing that all CPU cores are active, the top CPU intensive processes:
WindowServer (85.6%)
System Settings (72%)
Spotlight (69.3%)
iTerm2 (34.7%)
kernel_task (26.3%)

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Nicd @nicd.masto.ahlcode.fi.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Nyt on kiinnitetty näyttelijät harvinaisen pitkään tuotantoon.

Raparperitaivas — ilta Göstan ja Leavingsin kanssa. Pe 31.10.2025 – ke 31.10.2925.

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